Indian club



(No Model.)

R. REACH.

INDIAN CLUB.

No. 295,429. PatentedMar 18, 1884 I t I d k \f m fll WITNESSES UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT REACH, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

INDIAN CLUB.

, SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,429, dated March 18, 1884, Application filed December 3, 1883. (No modelA To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ROBERT REACH, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Philadelphia, in the county ofPhiladelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements in Indian Clubs, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to an improvement in I Indian clubs; and it consists in the hollow club A, having the plug-recess a for plug b, and the detachable head B, having the rod orifice O, in the weights D secured upon rod E by means of the lock-weights F, and in the construction, combination. and arrangement of the parts, as hereinafter more fully. shown and described.

In the drawings, Figure l is a view in longitudinal section, and Figs. 2, 3, and -l are de tail views.

The object of my invention is to produce an Indian club the weight of which may be readily adjusted or varied to suit the strength of an athlete or of that of a boy, and so constructed that the relative position of the weights contained in the body of the club may be varied at will; hence the weights D are so arranged that their positionand their number, and the consequent weight ofthe club, may be readily varied to suit the wish or strength of the person exercising with it, while avoiding the use of springs for holding the weights in position, which springs areinefficient and wholly unreliable when the number of the weights are varied. Some persons employ only two or three weights inthe club, others the maximum number, and others prefer to vary the weight of the club at intervals, and unless spiral springs are too strong for convenient manipulation, they are inefficient when the minimum number of weights are employed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A represents an Indian club having the cylindrical recess A, and divided into two sections, one comprising, in part, the handle of the club, and the other the head of the club, the handle-section having formed in its cylindrical recess the female screw B, adapted for reception of the male screw D of the headsection, whereby the sections are secured together. The handle-section is also provided with recess a, wherein is glued the recessed plug b, the orifice in plug b being designed for reception of one end of the weight-rod E; but when more convenient the plug b may be dispensed with, and a suitable recess for reception of rod E be formed in the handle section. The weight-rod E projects through a central orifice provided in each of the weightsD and the lock-weights F. The weights D are secured upon the weight-rod E by means of the lockweights F, one of which inclasps the weights rigidly at either end thereof. Thelock-weights F are each provided with. a screworifice, f, for reception of the set-screws d and d, and these orifices are each enlarged at the periphery of the lock-weight for reception of the head of its corresponding set-screw. These set'sc-rews are inserted in correspondingfemale-screw orifices provided in. the Weightrod E, as shown, and when it is designed to lighten or increase the weight of the club one of the lock-weights is withdrawn from the rod E, and the number of the weights D increased or diminished accordingly. When the head-section of the club is screwed upon the handle-section, one end of the weightrod E projectsinto the orifice g of the headsection, and its other end into orifice h of the handle-section, and it is thus held rigidly in position.

Having described my invention, what I claim is 1. An Indian club consisting of the hollow club A, having the detachable head B, and weights D, secured upon rod E by means of lock-weights F, having screworificesfior reception of setscrews d and d, substantially as shown and described.

2. An Indian club having a cylindrical recess, A, for rod E, detachable head B,having orifice g, weights D. removable on orificed weight-rod E, and weightlocks F, secured by set-screws (Z and d, substantially as shown, and for the purpose described.

3. In an Indian club, the combination of the handlesection having recess a, head B, having orifice g,weight-rod E, having femalescrew orifices, weightsD, lock-weights F, and set-screws d and cl, substantially as shown, and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ROBERT REACH.

Witnesses! J OHN I. ROGERS, THOS. J. PRATT. 

